Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the Sooners' 34-3 loss to the Texas Longhorns and the state of the program under head coach Brent Venables. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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As I I noted during the race for the case pod, this rivalry game is always close, except for when Brent Venables is involved, he's now been responsible for two absolute tire fire performances in the Cotton bowl against Texas 49 0 and 34 to 3.

Their offense is horrible.

They didn't, you know, they bench Jackson Arnold.

First of all, they kind of waved goodbye to Dylan Gabriel.

He might have wanted to leave, but they had Dylan Gabriel like, no, it's ok. We got Jackson Arnold.

Well, then they gave up on Jackson Arnold a couple games ago in the middle of the Tennessee game and haven't gone back to him and Michael Hawkins may end up being a very good player, but the Sec and Oklahoma football is not about, maybe you'll be good in a couple of years.

It's show up and play now and he was totally overwhelmed.

I mean, the play that completely encapsulated his day was they're losing by 24 points.

It's like 27 to 3 and there's, I don't know, midway through the fourth quarter or something and it's 1/4 and three and he's scrambling and he's just like, oh, it just throws the ball out of bounds.

It's like, dude, it's fourth down, it's ok if you throw an interception, try to actually make the first down and go down the field and score, it's the point, the game and they just, they are so overwhelmed at quarterback right now and Brent Venables is walking on some thin ice, that contract extension.

He got that big contract extension in the summer.

I don't know, I don't know.

There's a lot of people trying to hire him, banging down his door in the middle of May or something.

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